The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-16
BREAKFAST-TABI.E CHAT.

to such winnings on the turf
WHEN you read that this or that song-writer |
has made thousands Of dollars from single /
song, don't believe it. A song that brings to the /
author $5Oe is very popular bit.
THE Hon. George Bancroft is remarked to have |
been unfortunate in his dinner parties, at Wash |
ington. this season. Deaths and sickness have |
caused many of them to be postponed or entirely
broken up
Puck: Miss Boston (sweetlyl--I understand,
Miss Chicago, that the bellies of your city find
large boots the more preferablea Miss Chicago
tstill sweeterl-Yes, but we don't have to use !
mucilage on our garters
In Chicago are two or three women who earn
living by making button-holes for other wom
en- who have neither the patience nor skill to
do this branch of sewing. They charge % cents
dozen, and can earn from ST. to 81. 80 a day.
! Boston Herald: Four-year Beatrice was
lunching in company with her mamma the other
| day, when gentleman said, to tease her little
| lady ship 81 know what you would like VIVA.
| Is that' ''Oh, you'd like little brother" mo,
| shouldn't detest men,"
| ANENT Lord Tennyson's bitter reference to
''ths suffrage of the plow' in his latest poem 1t
is recalled that less than three years ago he
made one of his rare appearances in the House
of Lords expressly to vote for the franchise BILL
which gave Hodge the ballot
LoNG-FoReoTTEN portrait of Byron has been
brought to light at Fiume, Hungary. It was
painted at Venice, in 1876 by Natalie Schiavoni,
and represents the poet seated at coffee-table,
smoking. and wearing high hat and voumn-
| Gus cloak. His favorite dog stands beside him.
Mrs. BoULANGER, Of Branch county, Michi
gan, gave birth to twins two years ago. year
later she gave birth to triplets Last Christmas
| she added four more little Boulangers to the
nursery That Boulanger family seems to have
elements Of greatness on both sides Of the At
lantc.
DvoRAK, the composer, speaks queer English.
He is in England now and the telegram that
preceded him, addressed to the Leeds festival
committee, read like this: Cologne. am
coming today in Victoria. Will somebody
snatch me from the station, as I might not
| ognize the journeyT
Mr.. w. J. ST1LLMAN, the art critic, advises
parents to let their children play with water
colars, and to employ good teachers Of art for
them. Boys and girls. he thinks. should learn
to paint before they learn to draw, and from
the first should not draw from nature, but from
their idea of nature.
VERY notable reception was that given a
few days ago. in Boston. by Mrs. Benjamin Fl.
Ticknor, to Gen. Lew Wallace. The charming
hostess is the wife of the head of the publishing
house of Ticknor s. Co., and among her guests
were the most brilliant men and women of the
Massachusetts capital.
SINCE going to London, year ago. Prince
Krapotkin has lived in retirement in modest
little house at Harrow on the Hl and has kept
strictly aloof from the mad orgies of the Anarch-
lists and Social Democrats. He spends much
time in making literary and scientific researches
at the British Museum.
THE Paris exquisites. now called hyperchics
!. have begun an agitation directed against the
stovepipe hat and the black dress suit. One or
| two of them have shown themselves at the opera
wearing red coats and Derby hats, bur the move
ment, il 1t gains ground at ALL gains 80 slowly
that its progress is imperceptible.
Mr. JOHN DILLON. who next to Mr.. Parnellis
the most popular man in Ireland, is the son of
Mr.. John Blake Dillon, ''the honestest man in
Ireland according to John Bright. during the
rebellion of l848 Mr. Dillon the elder, was I'M
! til 1865, the law partner in New York of Judge
Richard O'Gorman, Of the Superior Court.
, THE bones Of Henry Fielding rest in the En-
, glish graveyard at Lisbon, incosed in preten-
. tious stone sarcophagus, green with age and
bearing on its face an elaborate Latin epitaph
1t is striking circumstance that man whose
writings thoroughly English should find
grave in foreign land and epitaph in an
ancient tongue
GEORGE r. FROST, rich citizen Of Cairo has
worn the same hat for twenty-six years. The
other day, while he was getting shaved, some
one stole it and put new one in its place. and
. Mr.. Frost got out warrants for four or Ave per-
sons, paid private detective SIS to work up the
, case, and will do his best to teach his neighbors
. to mind their own business.
KANSAS Cry young lady Ito young English
man)-''Yes, Miss Sloe gets her. beautiful dark
a eyes and raven hair from her great grandmother
who was the daughter of an Indian chief you
know. She has Indian blood in her veins y
Young Englishman-s.Th blood of the Tudors
: and Plantagenets courses through my veins.
Q Kansas City Young Lady-"Indeed; don't
q know the tribes. Life
THE President was very much amused on
: Monday to receive letter addressed His Elk
cellency Hon. Grover Cleveland, President
upon which was indorsed ''President, Penn
t sylvania Not here at present; try Washire
e ton" It seems that there is a postofice some
. where in Pennsylvania named President to
which the letter was first sent to De transmitted
thence to Washington with tho quaint indorse
:, ment of the postmaster.
It BLUFFUM is possessed of broad, catholic
;. spirit There is nothing contracted about
Bluffum. He was reading the other evening the
Z card of woman in the newspaper, in which sht
demanded that women be admitted into certain
l. professions and occupations. .Them's my sen
l. timents," exclaimed Bluffum with unwontet
q emphasis Give woman right to labor
:, wherever she wants to. Hang i'll she may do al
J the work. for aught care"
LITERARY man says: 81 have surely ds
/ covered the author of The Bread winners I
l. is John Hay as has been asserted You re-
y member the peculiar name of Oft in the book
a Well, man of that name appears in the earl,
: chapters of the life of Lincoln which Hay and
y Nicolay publishing in the Century. men
% toned the coincidence to Of the assistan
editors of the magazine, and he admitted OF
being pressed hard, that John Hay wrote til.
p much talked about novel"
ir NJ EUDE. civil engineer of Paris, has jus
IT presented to the Academy of Sciences the de
is tails of scheme to cut gigantic canal through
10 Syria and Persia, thereby uniting the Msditer
ranaan with the Parsian Gn1f Thia canal xuo,,l